मराठा हा प्रदेशवाचक शब्द आहे, हा जातीला उद्देशून कधीच नव्हता मित्रांनो
छत्रपती शिवाजी महाराजांनचे आजोबा हे गवळी धनगर होते..पुरावे रा.चि.ढेरे यांच्या पुस्तकात आहेत..परंतु तेव्हा राजपुतांशी वंशावळ जोडल्या शिवाय क्षत्रिय आणि राज्याभिषेक करता येत नसे..परंतु पशुपालक राजांच्या राज्यभिषेकास त्रास होत नसे उदाहरणार्थ- यशवंतराव होळकर, चंद्रगुप्त मौर्य, हरिहर बुक्क विजयनगर चे राजा, होयसळ, यादव,सातवाहन. जर उत्कांतीचा इतिहास मान्य केला तर हे ही मान्य करावेच लागेल की आद्यसत्ता गणसत्ता या पशुपालकांच्याच होत्या. नंतर शेतीचा विकास होऊन कृषीवल समाज पुढे जाऊन तयार झाला. तरीही सत्ता पशुपालकांच्या हाती राहीलेल्या दिसतात.
मरहट्ट ,गवळी आणि धनगर एकच होते. मराठ्यांनचा आणि पशुपालकांनचा राजपुतांशी संबंध होता का तर तो नव्हता कारण राजपुत हे सिथीयन वंशाचे लोक होते त्यांचा पशुधनानीशी भारतीय उपखंडामध्ये प्रवेश पहिल्या शतकापासून सुरु झाला होता.नंतर त्यांना धर्म ग्रंथात स्थान निश्चित झाले आणि क्षत्रियत्व बहाल करण्यात आले.
विठ्ठल खोत
Maratha Origin
S. B. Joshi traced the ancestry of Hatkars (Hattikaras) to the "Patti-Jana" people who were settled to the south of Narmada river in the middle ages. He also traced the etymology of the word "Maratha" to "Mara-hatta", and theorized that the region was originally known as "Hatta-desa".
The Hatkar identify themselves as falling within the Kshatriya (warrior) varna in Hindu society. Deshastha Brahmin are employed as priests and serve the caste in their religious and ceremonial observances.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatkar
Chatrapati Shivaji's Hoysala Origin
There is a long-standing claim that Chhatrapati Shivaji, one of India's greatest warriors, and his Bhosale family were descendants of Sisodia Rajputs of Rajasthan. Contesting the claim, eminent Marathi scholar Dr R.C. Dhere in his book Shikhar Shinganapurcha Shambhu Mahadev says the founder of the Bhosale clan had links with the Hoysala Yadavas of Karnataka.
The book focuses on the history of the Shiva temple at Shikhar Shinganapur in Satara, one of the sacred spots for the Maratha community. "Dr Dhere's book is the result of ten years of painstaking research," says Aruna Dhere, eminent Marathi writer and the scholar's daughter. "The origins of the Bhosales were discovered by accident."
Dhere's 101st book is bound to be controversial as it claims that acertain Baliappa was the founder of the Bhosale family. He had relations with the Hoysala Yadavas of Dwarsamudram (Halebid) in Karnataka. "Following the demise of Satvahanas the polity is first influenced by the Abhiras and then by the Yadava lineages which finally resulted in a kingdom of Yadavas by the end of the 12thcentury in the Deccan. This influence of the Yadava lineage continues, as shown by Dr Dhere's work, up to the 17th century," says Dr Ajay Dandekar, senior research fellow at the Social Science Centreat St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.
Dr R.C. Dhere in his book Shikhar Shinganapurcha Shambhu Mahadev says the founder of the Bhosale clan had links with the Hoysala Yadavas of Karnataka.
The Yadavas ruled over the Konkan coast of Maharashtra, but when the Dwarsamudram kingdom collapsed, most of the Yadava land lord families sought refuge in the Vijayanagar kingdom. When the Vijayanagar kingdom declined, a branch of the Yadavas moved north and secured a foot hold at Pande Pedgaon, Chambhargonde and Vaijapur in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra.
In support of his claim that Baliappa was the founder, Dhere citesevidence from Radha Madhav Vilas Champu by poet Jairam Pinde and Sangeet Shah Makrand. Both mention the name of Balip (Baliappa),
According to Dhere, it was L.G. Ghanekar in his 1933 book Prachin Dravid who first claimed that the Bhosales did not have any links with the Sisodia Rajputs. Not much importance was given to the claim because Ghanekar was not a historian.
The claim that the Bhosales are a branch of the Sisodia Rajputs can be found in the firmans of Ghorpades of Mudhol in Karnataka.According to the Ghorpade family tree, the Bhosales and they are descendants of a Sisodia warrior.
The late Marathi historian Narahar Kurundkar in his foreword to Ranjit Desai's Shriman Yogi, one of the finest literary works on Shivaji's life, says that Shahaji believed that he was a Rajput because the Ghorpades considered themselves Sisodias. "Shahaji stakeda claim to the Ghorpade estates by claiming that Bhosales and Ghorpades were brothers," says Kurundkar. But there is no evidence to prove that the Bhosales had Rajput origins, he says.
"When Maloji (Shahaji's father) became a soldier, he used the title Shrimant Maloji Raje. Shahaji later legalised the name by saying thatthey were Rajput Kshatriyas," wrote Kurundkar in a 1966 foreword tohis book.
In 1916, Marathi historian V.K. Rajwade found a letter of Shahaji to Muhammed Adil Shah of Bijapur saying he would not tolerate an insult since he was a Rajput. Dhere argues that Shahaji's use of the word Rajput in the letter merely meant a soldier by profession. "Shahaji had written to complain about his cousin Trimbakji Bhosale," Dhere explains. "He said that while he was a Rajput, his brother was anakartuk, a person who has not achieved much in his life."
Dhere says the Sisodia Rajput myth was perpetuated because of political compulsions. When Shivaji ascended the throne on June 6,1674, there was a debate about whether he was a Kshatriya or not.Gagabhatta, a Banaras Brahmin who was specially invited for thecoronation, said that Shivaji was a true-blooded Kshatriya and conducted the coronation in the Rajasthani Rajput style. "Shivaji used this Rajput angle only once at his coronation as he was more concerned about achieving his goal of establishing a 'Swarajya',"says Dhere.
The Bhosale family never mentioned their so-called Rajput origins. It was only after the Mughals released Shahu, Shivaji's grandson, in1707 that he started claiming that the Bhosales were Sisodia Rajputs.Dhere says that those who believe in the Rajput link base their viewson Sabhasad Bakhar (1697), which Krishnaji Anant Sabhasad, acouncillor in Shivaji's court wrote 17 years after Shivaji's death.In the Sabhasad Bakhar, Shivaji is quoted as saying, "Amhi Chitodche Sisodia Rajput (We are Sisodia Rajputs from Rajasthan).
"There are various views about the origins of the Bhosale family,"says Dr G.T. Kulkarni, a contemporary historian. "Dhere's thesis isone of them. People tend to get very emotional whenever the topic of Shivaji comes up for discussion, so we will have to analyse the evidence scientifically." He points out that in a letter Shivaji addressed his commander Jedhe Deshmukh as 'Rajputani Deshmukh.' At the same time, no letter has been discovered in which Shivaji claims that he is a Rajput, says Kulkarni.
Dr. Ramachandra Chintamana Dhere argues that Shivaji's ancestor is Balipa or Baliyappa hailing from a place called Soratur near Gadag in north Karnataka. Another important claim apart from the geographical origins of Shivaji by Dr. Dhere is that Shivaji is not a Rajput but a Yadava or a Gowli Dhangar as is popularly known in Maharastra or a Golla in Karnataka. The author also dwells into the origin of the word Bhosale, which is believed to be Shivaji's second name. According to the author Bhosale is a verbal distortion of the word "Hoysala," which is a name of a dynasty that ruled Karnataka. Likewise the author also takes a clue from the deity Shivaji worshipped, "Shikara Shinganapura Shambhu Mahadeva." According to Dhere's findings, the deity is none other than "Shreeshaila Mallikarjuna," which also corroborates the fact that Shivaji is not a Rajput. To this effect Dhere provides sufficient historical and evidences from folklore.
